Youngsan University영산대학교

Programs

Two campuses, and only the Haeundae one is in Busan.

Youngsan University runs a Busan campus in Haeundae-gu, called the Busan Campus in English and the Haeundae campus in Korean, and a main campus in Yangsan, Gyeongsangnam-do. The two carry different subjects, so check which campus your program is on before you plan anything else. The Busan campus is built around the College of Tourism, Culture and Arts, the College of Multidisciplinary Studies toward Future and the College of Wellness Health. Nursing, physical therapy, dental hygiene, taekwondo, police administration, law, mechanical and automotive engineering, hydrogen system engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, architectural engineering, computer engineering and drone spatial information engineering are Yangsan programs, not Busan ones. The Korean site brands the university as 와이즈유(영산대학교), a dual WISE University and Youngsan University branding adopted in 2018, while every official English page uses Youngsan University only.

Academic Fields

Those are the Haeundae campus undergraduate departments. At graduate level the Haeundae campus lists Graduate School departments of Real Estates, Hotel and Tourism Administration and Beauty Arts, plus the Graduate Schools of Legal Affairs and Business Administration, Real Estate, Tourism, and Beauty Arts. Published eligibility reads: high school graduates are eligible only for the Korean Language Program or the regular undergraduate courses, and only university graduates are eligible for the graduate courses. There is no published list of majors closed to international students.

Academic Calendar

Admissions

Start at the Office of Global Affairs (대외협력단).

The official international admissions page is http://www.ysu.ac.kr/eng/CMS/Contents/Contents.do?mCode=MN039, listed in the sitemap under Admissions as International Application and Recruitment & Admission Guide. The dedicated international-office site is http://global.ysu.ac.kr. The office is at (48015) 부산 해운대구 반송순환로 142 대외협력단, on the Haeundae campus, phone 051-540-7022, fax 051-540-7026. Insurance and related questions go to 051-540-7028 instead. The only room published is Office of Global Affairs, Building M9308 (M동 9308), and no separate room number is published for the admissions counter itself. Be ready for the office name to change shape as you move between pages: it appears as 대외협력단, 국제협력단, 국제협력팀, 교류협력처 유학생지원센터 국제지원팀, 유학생유치단 국제유치팀 and Office of Global Affairs, with sub-units named Office of International Recruitment and Office of International Support. They are the same operation.

From Gimhae Airport

By light rail and subway. No official journey time is published.

1. 01Gimhae Airport, take the Busan-Gimhae Light Rail
2. 02Transfer at Daejeo to subway Line 3
3. 03Line 3 to Minam Station
4. 04Transfer to Line 4 bound for Anpyeong
5. 05Get off at Youngsan Univ. Station (영산대역), exit 2
6. 06About a 15 to 20 minute walk up to the front gate, the university's own wording

First Stop Checklist

• 1Go to the Office of Global Affairs, Building M9308, Haeundae campus
• 2Confirm your alien registration card and visa or stay status
• 3Ask about National Health Insurance enrolment, bring the insurance fee and your alien registration card
• 4Confirm your dormitory assignment, room type and whether you want the optional meal plan
• 5Arrange your student ID and library access
• 6Ask the Korean Language Education Center in Building D 2F about placement if you are joining a language term
• 7Work out your daily route, the bus to 반송우체국 or the walk from 영산대역 exit 2
• 8Plan weekend food, dormitory meals are not served at weekends or on public holidays

Useful Korean Phrases

Student Life

A valley campus in a residential neighbourhood.

The Haeundae campus is compact and residential rather than surrounded by a student strip. Most of what you will use daily sits inside the campus or in Bansong-dong around it, and the bigger city is a bus or subway ride away.

Support for international students

On-Campus Dorms

The Haeundae campus has two dormitory buildings, 제1생활관 (one basement floor and six above ground, 7,807.00 square metres) and 제2생활관 (one basement floor and three above ground, 4,361.43 square metres), 244 rooms in total with capacity for 696 students out of 1,291 university-wide, the other 595 being at Yangsan. University-wide room formats are 1인실, 2인실, 3인실 and 4인실. Rooms come with a desk, chair, bookshelf, bed, wardrobe and LAN port, and shared facilities include a fitness room, study room, laundry, washroom, showers, an internet cafe and a shop. International students are housed in what the Office of Global Affairs calls Dormitory (Building H) at the Haeundae campus, in 2-bed and 4-bed rooms. Apply at http://dorm.ysu.ac.kr at least two weeks before arrival, or in person at the dormitory office on the first floor when you get there. Note that the dormitory site and the international pages use different names for the buildings, 제1생활관 and 제2생활관 on one, H동 or Building H on the other.

Treat these figures carefully. Two official Youngsan pages publish different dormitory fees for the same building and neither carries a year stamp: the Office of Global Affairs page says about 563,000 to 906,000 KRW per semester of 4 months for a 4-person or 2-person room, while the Korean Language Education Center page says 1,285,000 KRW for a 2-person room, 734,000 KRW for a 4-person and 650,000 KRW for a 6-person. The dormitory site itself publishes no figures at all, only the note that the fee is per semester, is made up of items including management fees and residents' association fees, and changes every year (생활관비는 한학기 기준이며 관리비, 자치회비 등의 항목으로 책정되며 매년 변동 될 수 있습니다). Get the current number in writing before you transfer anything. Meals are not bundled: there is a separate optional meal plan (선택급식) at 4,200 to 5,000 KRW per meal, covering one or two weekday meals (breakfast and dinner), with lunch taken at the student cafeteria and no service at weekends or on public holidays. Dormitory office, Haeundae: 051-540-7400, (48015) 부산광역시 해운대구 반송순환로 142(반송동). Yangsan dormitory: 055-380-9702. The international dormitory contact is 최참솔 on 051-540-7031, chamsol@ysu.ac.kr, and the English page names Mr. Liu Weihan, Office of Global Affairs (Building M9308), on the same number.

Off-Campus Rent

We looked for a citable rent figure for Bansong-dong in August 2026 and did not find one, official or otherwise, so we are not publishing a range. Treat any listing you find as a starting point rather than a quote. Useful geography: 반송동 splits into 아랫반송 (Bansong 1-dong, the older low-rise area where 영산대역 is) and 윗반송 (Bansong 2-dong, mostly apartments, with 반송큰시장 as the local market). Korean search terms that work: 영산대 원룸, 영산대학교 원룸, 반송동 원룸, 아랫반송 원룸, 윗반송 원룸, 영산대 자취방. Use Naver 부동산, 직방, 다방 and the local estate agents around 반송우체국.

Dining on the Haeundae campus

The official menu page publishes three dining categories for the Haeundae campus, 기숙사 식당 (dormitory cafeteria), 학생식당 (student cafeteria) and 교직원 식당 (staff cafeteria), with weekly menus posted by breakfast (조식), lunch (중식) and dinner (석식) at https://ysu.ac.kr/kor/CMS/DietMenuMgr/list.do?mCode=MN192&itemcode1=CDE_000030. The dormitory cafeteria has about 220 seats (약 220석의 좌석과 방송시설이 완비되어 있어) and has run since the first semester of 2007, 051-540-7400. Two honest gaps. No opening hours and no counter price list are published for the Haeundae 학생식당, and the exact building is not stated either, the campus map suggests E동, the student union building, but that is unconfirmed. The only published price, 4,200 to 5,000 KRW per meal, is the dormitory meal plan rate, not the student cafeteria counter price. Also note that the 천원의 아침밥 subsidised breakfast programme, 1,000 KRW to the student for a meal worth 5,000 KRW, Monday to Thursday 08:30 to 10:00 from 3 March to 17 December 2026, first 110 students each day, runs only at the Yangsan campus in the 코스모스관 second-floor cafeteria. Haeundae is explicitly excluded until funding allows.

Libraries & Sports

• 연봉도서관 (Yeonbong Library), Haeundae campus, 051-540-7050. The Yangsan campus has 중앙도서관 on 055-380-9137.
• Borrowing is in person on presentation of a student card or mobile ID, with loan periods of 10 to 50 days depending on user category, renewable.
• Web databases, e-books and e-learning content are published as available to both campuses.
• Group study rooms are booked at the circulation desk, minimum group of 3 at Yeonbong Library and 5 at Yangsan.
• Library portal: https://lib.ysu.ac.kr. It served an empty page when we checked in August 2026, and no opening hours are published for Yeonbong Library.

Health & Medical

For urgent situations anywhere in Korea, call 119. Take your student ID, alien registration card, insurance details and a translation app to any medical visit.